Re: Sumo world championships

[Achim Pawelczyk <achimp@herten.de>]

As I can't get more detailed results anywhere else, I take it from a
posting to the Japanese Sumo-ML by Omochi-san - yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

individuals

light weight
1. Binev, Svetoslav (Bulgaria)
2. Ibata, Atsuhiro (Japan)

middle weight
1. Takahama, Tatsuo (Japan)
2. Grams, Eduard (Germany)

heavy weight
1. Bruemer, Jorg (Germany) 
2. Qerawaqa, Nacanieli (Fiji)
3. Santana, Marcos (Brazil)
3. Kato, Seiken (Japan)
(lost to Qerawaqa not in the semi, but 2nd round and got through afterwards)

open category
1. Tamiya, Keiji (Japan)
2. Robinson, Mark (South Africa)
3. Jaracz, Jacek (Poland)
3. Scheibler, Thorsten (Germany)


team
1. Japan (Senpo: Tamiya, Keiji, Chuken: Kakizoe, Toru, Taisho: Kato, Koichi)
2. USA (Senpo: Pulotu, Sione, Chuken: Yarbrough, Emanuel, Taisho: Vierra,
Wayne)
3. Germany
3. Poland

TV Asahi will show the pictures on Dec. the 29th, so it seems.


Akinomaki - most reports from newspaper pages are already gone.

Achim Pawelczyk

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